Live Teatro Fond. Nuoveoz (072- May 04, 2013)

MAURO SAMBO (Venice 1954) He is an artist which has often worked to test those limits and boundaries existing between sculpture and performance, video or music. His participation at the XLIV VENICE BIENNALE - APERTO 90 and his solo show "Un lungo viaggio immobile" held at the Querini Stampalia Foundation of Venice in the year 2002, are some of his most significative exhibitions.

With a lucky and moving coup de théâtre, during the night of Mauro Sambo’s performance at Teatro Fondamenta Nuove in Venice, the snow in the video that hypnotized the audience has been matched by a strong snowfall just outside the door, only few steps away.
Almost a signal that something magic could happen and that it were happening then and there, as concerns music, which finds its reason to unfold in the urgency of the moment.
Something magic was happening indeed, because this work by Mauro Sambo manages to put together different layers of sound in an almost necessary way: the droning physicality of sounds finds a deep expressive counterpart in a regular percussive pulse (achieved with a drum machine), allowing the pneumatic work of the soprano saxophone - sometimes torn, but never lacking of comforting flares- to emerge like a seam, whose colored thread you risk to follow, forgetting how much the needle has had to penetrate into the skin to do that.
It’s a work that succeeds in the little miracle of bringing together the ritual and the abstract, the nature and the machine, that apparent slowing down of the senses under a blanket of sound and snow, where at the same time there is a hidden celebration of musical dancing molecules.
A miniaturized journey, and once it’s undertaken we risk to find a piece of ourselves under that snow.
Enrico Bettinello (music critic and director of Teatro Fondamenta Nuove)